title: Negotiating three worlds: academia, nursing science, and tribal communities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to use a cross-cultural model to guide the exploration of common issues and the dynamic interrelationships surrounding entrée to tribal communities as experienced by four nursing research teams.
  
  
  METHODS
  Members of four research teams discuss the primary lessons learned about successful strategies and challenges encountered during their projects' early stages.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Understanding the cultural values of relationship and reciprocity is critical to the success of research projects conducted in Native American communities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Conducting cross-cultural research involves complex negotiations among members of three entities: academia, nursing science, and tribal communities. The lessons learned in these four research projects may be instructive to investigators who have the opportunity to conduct research with tribal communities.
authors.affiliation: Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Holkup
authors.forename: T Kim
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Rodehorst
authors.forename: Susan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Wilhelm
authors.forename: Sandra W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kuntz
authors.forename: Clarann
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weinert
authors.forename: Mary Beth Flanders
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Stepans
authors.forename: Emily Matt
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Salois
authors.forename: Jacqueline Left
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hand Bull
authors.forename: Wade G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000208:ethnology; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D003256:Community Participation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000208:ethnology*; D008767:Methylmercury Compounds / Q000506:poisoning; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009009:Montana; D017008:Negotiating / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D012107:Research Design; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration
chemical_list: D008767:Methylmercury Compounds